Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 62 68
Rank change year-on-year -41 +6 -14
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,689 1,937 3,634
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.79% 4.29% 3.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 4.65% 4.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,242 972 2,725
10th Percentile £46,939 £50,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £58,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.54% -13.97%
75th Percentile £93,634 £95,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £110,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -7.14% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 69,167 41,647 89,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 92.28% 81.67%
Number of salaries quoted 47,650 22,422 63,265
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,145
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 22 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 22 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -34 1,532 £75,000 +2.04% 401
UK excluding London -80 833 £65,000 -7.14% 290
Work from Home -25 755 £67,500 -3.57% 231
London -8 725 £85,000 +3.03% 180
North of England -42 334 £69,310 -4.40% 93
South East -21 225 £65,000 -7.14% 104
North West -49 183 £75,000 +3.45% 57
Midlands -75 87 £67,500 - 27
South West -77 85 £52,500 -23.39% 34
Yorkshire -27 81 £65,000 -11.79% 19
North East +8 70 £65,000 +2.36% 18
West Midlands -42 61 £78,750 +12.50% 18
East of England -17 46 £60,100 -1.88% 12
Scotland -64 28 £60,000 -24.44% 13
Wales -34 25 £67,500 +29.81% 6
East Midlands -62 25 £65,000 - 9
Northern Ireland -32 7 £62,500 +25.00% 6
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 - 1

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 25 (1.48%) Apache Spark
2 24 (1.42%) Confluence
3 14 (0.83%) Apache
3 14 (0.83%) CMS
3 14 (0.83%) IIS
4 10 (0.59%) JBoss
5 9 (0.53%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 8 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.36%) WordPress
8 5 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.30%) Drupal
8 5 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.24%) Camunda
9 4 (0.24%) GeoServer
9 4 (0.24%) nginx
10 3 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
10 3 (0.18%) Umbraco
10 3 (0.18%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.12%) DNN
11 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.53%) MS Visio
2 6 (0.36%) PlantUML
3 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.30%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.12%) Shopify
6 1 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 901 (53.35%) AWS
2 734 (43.46%) Azure
3 314 (18.59%) GCP
4 254 (15.04%) Serverless
5 174 (10.30%) GitHub
6 170 (10.07%) SaaS
7 140 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
8 120 (7.10%) AWS Lambda
9 101 (5.98%) Amazon EKS
9 101 (5.98%) Amazon S3
10 84 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 75 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
12 71 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
13 66 (3.91%) Amazon EC2
13 66 (3.91%) GitHub Copilot
14 62 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
15 59 (3.49%) Azure AKS
16 50 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
17 45 (2.66%) PaaS
18 44 (2.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 64 (3.79%) Broadband
2 24 (1.42%) Network Security
3 12 (0.71%) DMARC
3 12 (0.71%) MQTT
4 11 (0.65%) DNS
4 11 (0.65%) Internet
5 8 (0.47%) Firewall
5 8 (0.47%) Hyperconnected
5 8 (0.47%) VPN
6 7 (0.41%) AMQP
6 7 (0.41%) DHCP
6 7 (0.41%) HTTP
7 6 (0.36%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.36%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.30%) LTE
8 5 (0.30%) RFID
9 3 (0.18%) Modbus
10 2 (0.12%) HTTPS
10 2 (0.12%) SNMP
10 2 (0.12%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 249 (14.74%) MongoDB
2 200 (11.84%) NoSQL
3 184 (10.89%) PostgreSQL
4 126 (7.46%) Elasticsearch
5 119 (7.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 101 (5.98%) MySQL
7 79 (4.68%) Relational Database
7 79 (4.68%) SQL Server
8 51 (3.02%) Redis
9 47 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
9 47 (2.78%) DynamoDB
10 29 (1.72%) Big Data
11 26 (1.54%) BigQuery
12 23 (1.36%) RDBMS
13 13 (0.77%) Pinecone
14 8 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.47%) Db2
15 7 (0.41%) DTS
15 7 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
16 6 (0.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 201 (11.90%) Git
2 160 (9.47%) GitLab
3 128 (7.58%) Jenkins
4 55 (3.26%) TeamCity
5 49 (2.90%) JIRA
6 47 (2.78%) JUnit
7 38 (2.25%) Cucumber
8 31 (1.84%) Mockito
9 30 (1.78%) Claude Code
9 30 (1.78%) Cypress.io
10 28 (1.66%) CircleCI
11 27 (1.60%) Maven
12 17 (1.01%) Selenium
12 17 (1.01%) Vite
13 16 (0.95%) JMeter
13 16 (0.95%) SonarQube
14 13 (0.77%) Postman
15 12 (0.71%) REST Assured
16 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
16 9 (0.53%) Spock
General
1 447 (26.47%) Finance
2 306 (18.12%) Social Skills
3 159 (9.41%) Banking
4 149 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 98 (5.80%) Retail
6 96 (5.68%) Analytical Skills
7 89 (5.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 89 (5.27%) Law
8 54 (3.20%) Financial Institution
9 47 (2.78%) Back Office
10 30 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.72%) Telecoms
12 26 (1.54%) Marketing
13 18 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.01%) Advertising
15 16 (0.95%) Billing
16 15 (0.89%) Legal
17 14 (0.83%) Games
18 12 (0.71%) Front Office
19 10 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 588 (34.81%) Developer
2 403 (23.86%) Senior
3 344 (20.37%) Software Engineer
4 241 (14.27%) Architect
5 236 (13.97%) Lead
6 154 (9.12%) .NET Developer
7 139 (8.23%) Full-Stack Developer
8 132 (7.82%) Java Developer
9 123 (7.28%) Java Engineer
10 118 (6.99%) Senior Software Engineer
11 115 (6.81%) Senior Developer
12 90 (5.33%) Solutions Architect
13 87 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 76 (4.50%) Principal Engineer
15 68 (4.03%) Software Developer
16 60 (3.55%) Lead Developer
17 57 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
18 53 (3.14%) Senior Java Engineer
19 49 (2.90%) Java Software Engineer
20 44 (2.61%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 415 (24.57%) .NET
2 378 (22.38%) React
3 354 (20.96%) Node.js
4 279 (16.52%) Spring
5 266 (15.75%) RESTful
6 256 (15.16%) Spring Boot
7 225 (13.32%) REST
8 204 (12.08%) Kafka
9 175 (10.36%) .NET Core
9 175 (10.36%) ASP.NET
10 172 (10.18%) AngularJS
11 160 (9.47%) Vue
12 141 (8.35%) ASP.NET Core
13 86 (5.09%) ASP.NET Web API
13 86 (5.09%) HTML
14 85 (5.03%) .NET Framework
15 81 (4.80%) gRPC
16 79 (4.68%) CSS
17 75 (4.44%) Blazor
18 67 (3.97%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 501 (29.66%) Cloud Native
2 292 (17.29%) Distributed Systems
3 116 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 80 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
5 73 (4.32%) Enterprise Software
6 51 (3.02%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (2.72%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.66%) Over-the-Top Content
9 35 (2.07%) Onboarding
10 32 (1.89%) Algorithms
10 32 (1.89%) Public Cloud
11 29 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 27 (1.60%) AI Agents
13 25 (1.48%) Distributed Architecture
13 25 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
14 23 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
14 23 (1.36%) Mobile App
15 22 (1.30%) e-Learning
16 21 (1.24%) PKI
16 21 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 102 (6.04%) Linux
2 44 (2.61%) Windows
3 20 (1.18%) Unix
4 7 (0.41%) CentOS
4 7 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (0.36%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.30%) Debian
6 5 (0.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.18%) Android
7 3 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.12%) AIX
9 1 (0.059%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 850 (50.33%) CI/CD
2 738 (43.69%) Agile
3 615 (36.41%) DevOps
4 614 (36.35%) Software Engineering
5 472 (27.95%) Full-Stack Development
6 407 (24.10%) Containerisation
7 388 (22.97%) Mentoring
8 350 (20.72%) Test Automation
9 342 (20.25%) Event-Driven
10 332 (19.66%) AI
11 319 (18.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 317 (18.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 291 (17.23%) Problem-Solving
14 224 (13.26%) Scrum
15 214 (12.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 203 (12.02%) Technical Leadership
17 201 (11.90%) TDD
18 189 (11.19%) Coaching
19 188 (11.13%) Clean Code
20 177 (10.48%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 553 (32.74%) Java
2 422 (24.99%) Python
3 418 (24.75%) SQL
4 409 (24.22%) C#
5 383 (22.68%) JavaScript
6 313 (18.53%) TypeScript
7 119 (7.05%) Go
8 50 (2.96%) Scala
9 44 (2.61%) PHP
10 43 (2.55%) C++
11 42 (2.49%) Bash
12 36 (2.13%) Ruby
13 26 (1.54%) C
14 24 (1.42%) Rust
15 23 (1.36%) Bicep
15 23 (1.36%) PowerShell
16 17 (1.01%) PL/SQL
17 16 (0.95%) Kotlin
18 12 (0.71%) Shell Script
19 11 (0.65%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 202 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 166 (9.83%) Degree
3 135 (7.99%) SC Cleared
4 82 (4.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 59 (3.49%) AWS Certification
6 32 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 31 (1.84%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.54%) CISSP
9 25 (1.48%) Azure Certification
10 19 (1.12%) Master's Degree
11 15 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (0.83%) DBS Check
13 11 (0.65%) CISM
13 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.47%) PhD
15 7 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.41%) ISTQB
16 5 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
16 5 (0.30%) ISACA
16 5 (0.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (7.05%) QA
2 57 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 39 (2.31%) GDPR
4 38 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (1.42%) NIST
5 24 (1.42%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.36%) SOC 2
7 19 (1.12%) WCAG
8 15 (0.89%) GRC
8 15 (0.89%) NCSC
9 11 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 4 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 3 (0.18%) IFRS
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 20022
13 3 (0.18%) ISO 9001
13 3 (0.18%) SEPA
14 2 (0.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 492 (29.13%) Docker
2 20 (1.18%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.24%) Firmware
4 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.059%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 527 (31.20%) Kubernetes
2 319 (18.89%) Terraform
3 93 (5.51%) Ansible
4 91 (5.39%) Grafana
5 51 (3.02%) Prometheus
6 23 (1.36%) Kibana
7 22 (1.30%) Argo
8 15 (0.89%) Puppet
9 13 (0.77%) Cilium
10 12 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.41%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.24%) Packer
12 4 (0.24%) Podman
13 3 (0.18%) Rancher
14 2 (0.12%) Istio
14 2 (0.12%) MIIS
14 2 (0.12%) Nagios
14 2 (0.12%) Opsgenie
14 2 (0.12%) Progress Chef
15 1 (0.059%) logstash
Vendors
1 241 (14.27%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.32%) Google
3 52 (3.08%) Oracle
4 45 (2.66%) Typelevel
5 32 (1.89%) OpenAI
6 24 (1.42%) Splunk
7 23 (1.36%) Dynatrace
8 18 (1.07%) AppDynamics
9 15 (0.89%) IBM
10 14 (0.83%) Databricks
11 13 (0.77%) Red Hat
11 13 (0.77%) SendGrid
12 12 (0.71%) Adobe
13 10 (0.59%) Salesforce
14 9 (0.53%) Guidewire
14 9 (0.53%) SAP
14 9 (0.53%) ServiceNow
15 8 (0.47%) Cisco
15 8 (0.47%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (0.41%) HubSpot